Chapter 30 - This is not fair! (1/2)

Somewhere three days away from the village, a group of ten people were stationed waiting for something, they were using clothes that made them look like bandits, they all had cultivation that varies between the 3rd and 6st stage of Foundation Establishment, their leader was holding a picture of Krune, they had received an order from the clan to capture this demon beast in human form, they should also eliminate all witnesses while at it, the Mercenary guild can't be trifled with.

They received this order three days ago and set out from Kaley City, the leader also received information of how to recognize Krune's aura, he isn't putting much thought on it, the target is only at the 1st stage of Foundation Establishment, it will be very easy to capture. So what if he beat three 2nd stage puppets at once? With his 6th stage cultivation he could do that too even if there was more of them!

”Alright, we rested enough, let's set out, considering the time span we should be able to find him tomorrow at most, we should hurry.”

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Krune was traveling with the group, in the last three days they fought two bandit groups, to bad for them though, they underestimated him, it wasn't long when they were wiped out, the other three Foundation Establishment cultivators were amazed with Krune, to think that a 1st stage Foundation Establishment guy could be this strong.

The bandits were really unlucky, Krunes divine sense can be extended to over five kilometers, although it spends a lot of spiritual energy to keep it on, it doesn't mean that Krune need to do so without stop, he simply used it every 15 minutes or so for a second or two, with that he could find out about the bandits ambushes long before they did something.

Yusa wasn't much different either, she might not have Krune strength, but she still got a Two Stars Mercenary Badge, she is quite strong herself.

Krune saw her using a water prison, the enemy couldn't leave doesn't matter what he did, inside that prison he could see water blades running around and attacking the bandit from all sides, it didn't take long before he was dead. She also had something that looked like water dragons dancing around her body, they didn't do anything, in the end she told him that they were for defense, they would be used to block any attacks coming in her direction.

Seeing that, Krune tried to make a water prison himself, it looked a very good imprisonment skill after all, but he failed in the first tries, Yusa was laughing at first, did Krune even know how long did it take to learn that by herself? But the smile on her face didn't last long, an hour later, Krune had already formed a water prison, just that his one wasn't as good as her, but to learn how to use the water prison by simply looking and only take an hour to get the basic understand of it, she could only think about Krune as a monster! Krune also tried the water dragons, this one was easier to learn, after understand how to form the water prison, his understand of the water element improved several times, so it wasn't difficult to grasp it.

Yusa didn't even want to look at it anymore, otherwise her self confidence, which has already been hurt, will crumble completely.

Practice makes perfect, in those three days Krune's water prison and water dragons were already as good as Yusa's, maybe even better, in fact, Krune was holding himself back, he was only practicing, there was no need to go all out with it, he couldn't help but think.

'The Myriad Energies Technique is really marvelous, now I'm even more sure that this technique has this name because of its ability to improve ones control over the elements, I have been feeling that my connection with the elements is getting stronger and stronger the higher my cultivation gets.'

It was night of the third day when the group stopped to rest, they didn't set up a concealing formation because there is too many people, their concealing runes would not be able to cover them all, there is also no need for that anyway, very few bandit groups would pose a threat to them to start with. Almost everyone was sleeping, with just three Qi Condensation cultivators awake to watch for them.

Krune was nearby cultivating, he finally reinforced his planet foundation enough to breakthrough.

'It really takes a lot of time, and every stage higher I get, the longer it will take, I will need higher level spirit stones in the future or better cultivation resources too.'

He put those thought behind his mind and went forward to breakthrough the next stage, the people who were sleeping suddenly woke up, the spiritual energy of the surroundings started to move crazily in Krune's direction. Yusa and the other looked at him.

”He is breaking through, so he will get to the 2nd stage now, he is already this strong with a 1st stage cultivation, now that he is becoming a 2nd stage one, he will be even stronger. I already wasn't his match before, now I'm even less. The universe Foundation is really marvelous!”

She couldn't help but sigh.

It didn't take long for an explosion of spiritual energy comes from Krunes universe foundation, it sent dust and everywhere, everyone knew that he had succeed. The leader of the group came forward to congratulate him.

”Very good, brother. Now we are going to be even safer during our travel.”

His name was Ao Sulian, Krune smiled and accepted the compliment, this guy was quite an easy going cultivator, he didn't have that aura of pride around him when he talked with the Qi Condensation cultivators of the group, Krune had quite a good impression of him.

”It was just luck, I've have been accumulating spiritual energy for a long time already, so now I simply took the chance that my foundation just got sturdy enough to go through it.”

Yusa came forward to ask him

”How long has it been since you broke through the Foundation Establishment Realm?

Krune showed an embarrassed face while scratching the back of his head.

”It has already been almost an entire month, I've been really busy lately with my leaving of the Katiu forest, Mercenary Exam and all, nothing worth to mention.”

Yusa and Ao almost vomited blood. Nothing worth to mention? Nothing worth to mention your head! Then what about us? Can you stop stepping on our pride, please? We beg you!

”Cough, cough. There is no need for you to hurry so much anyway, in fact, you are progressing very fast already, be careful or your foundation might get unstable, a strong foundation can get you much further even if takes longer.”

Krune then nodded, he then thought to himself.

'Seems like that my cultivation speed is much higher than people at my level, I better not mention about it in the future.'

They didn't know that Krune foundation was already as sturdy as it could be, it was exactly because that he was afraid that he hadn't reinforced his planet foundation enough that he didn't breakthrough earlier, he is making sure that everything is perfect before advancing any extra level.

Finishing talking with them, Krune went back to cultivate again, there is still a few hours before they set of next morning, his future 'rainbow' core can now absorb more spiritual energy again, Krune took even more spiritual stones from his spatial ring and started send spiritual energy to it.

'As expected, now that I have broken through the rate of absorption of spiritual energy from the rainbow core has increased too, it will probably need more energy as well.'

Before Krune had used around 200 Rank One middle and high quality spirit stones to fulfill his rainbow core, now he needs to see how many his 2nd stage rainbow core will use.

Krune kept at it until the next day, he noticed that his spiritual stone are disappearing at very fast pace, if this continued like this he would only have enough for another two days, his rainbow core looked like a bottomless hole too, that made him feel quite depressed. Not at his rainbow core or his universe foundation, but at his own wealth.